Window managers alternatives (was Re: [svlug] StarOFfice to b e GPL'd...)

[Jan-Albert Venter]

While we're on the topic of WM pagers, I should mention Nick Moffitt's The
Village. It's a FVWM setup with a gigantic virtual desktop and an xterm
covering each screen-sized space (with the window decorations off the
screen). To the untrained eye, it looks like he's in a text mode,
especially with the way he jumps between consoles with keystrokes. But the
magic begins when he starts an X application, and it comes up right over
the console. This kind of setup seems great for someone who's a text kind
of guy but doesn't want to have to go into a different environment to use
X applications.


I'm gonna steal this idea for my root account :-),